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I wonder........

............if BT are considering bringing these goodies to their boxes which are making their way on to retail boxes https://support.youview.com/youview-box/software-updates/humax-retail-software-update-31-56-10# or will they be lost to us just as 'Discover' & 'Watch List' seem to be.
The 'Start Again', 'Recent Searches', quicker timeout of the Playback Bar, and the bug fix for Live Pause would all be welcome additions to all Youview boxes irrespective of supplier or where the box was sourced.

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Retail boxes do seem to be getting some better features than the BT boxes. I was at my sisters at the weekend and her retail T2000 had some features that my T2100 box don't have.
BT do seem to be starting to fall a little behind with there updates.

Retail boxes do seem to be getting some better features than the BT boxes. I was at my sisters at the weekend and her retail T2000 had some features that my T2100 box don't have.
BT do seem to be starting to fall a little behind with there updates.

Darren

Unfortunately most of us predicted that when they effectively decided to 'go it alone' from the main Youview product.

The Discover and Watchlist functionality is a strange one. I questioned BT when this was first released and was told it was a commercial decision that they wanted to do this slightly differently and focus on other priority's i.e. the amazon app. Depending on your personal preference you will have your own opinion as to whether you would be happy to get the amazon app or the discover/watchlist function first.
Having the Discover/Watchlist functions on a retail box on a BT line you can see the 'BT' specific content i.e. from the BT Player in the discover section and it works pretty well, so I really hope BT will change their mind and actually incorporate this functionality into their own releases but I don't see any signs of this happening yet
The other stuff like iPlayer restart etc I would be very surprised if we don't see this incorporated into a BT build very soon as it is something released from a YouView partner (BBC) and released across a multitude of devices so I would expect BT to take this option also after they have finished the recording fix and amazon app releases rollout.
It is not really a case of BT falling behind as such. You will see most of the software numbering following along which means most of this stuff is built into the software builds but just hidden (or not activated) due to commercial reasons or insufficient testing by each specific platform. If you are a big Amazon fan you could say Retail have fallen behind by not having this app on their boxes. It is horses for courses. YouView have stated they are expecting to have the amazon app on their boxes at some point so hopefully it will be a case of different platforms releasing, testing and fine tuning different items that they think are priorities but eventually then being released on all boxes, only time will tell

The Discover and Watchlist functionality is a strange one. I questioned BT when this was first released and was told it was a commercial decision that they wanted to do this slightly differently and focus on other priority's i.e. the amazon app. Depending on your personal preference you will have your own opinion as to whether you would be happy to get the amazon app or the discover/watchlist function first.
Having the Discover/Watchlist functions on a retail box on a BT line you can see the 'BT' specific content i.e. from the BT Player in the discover section and it works pretty well, so I really hope BT will change their mind and actually incorporate this functionality into their own releases but I don't see any signs of this happening yet
The other stuff like iPlayer restart etc I would be very surprised if we don't see this incorporated into a BT build very soon as it is something released from a YouView partner (BBC) and released across a multitude of devices so I would expect BT to take this option also after they have finished the recording fix and amazon app releases rollout.
It is not really a case of BT falling behind as such. You will see most of the software numbering following along which means most of this stuff is built into the software builds but just hidden (or not activated) due to commercial reasons or insufficient testing by each specific platform. If you are a big Amazon fan you could say Retail have fallen behind by not having this app on their boxes. It is horses for courses. YouView have stated they are expecting to have the amazon app on their boxes at some point so hopefully it will be a case of different platforms releasing, testing and fine tuning different items that they think are priorities but eventually then being released on all boxes, only time will tell

Excellent well reasoned post as always @scointer and like you say, when using Discover/Watchlist on a retail box you can see how easily BTTV has been integrated. There were those on here saying both of these functions would be 'coming shortly' to BT boxes when they first appeared on retail boxes, but again, as you say, BT seem to have put them on the back burner. Personally it's nice to see Amazon on BT boxes but then again I use a Roku for all my streaming/catch up and only use BTTV for the odd programme on the BT Player.